单词 | waxy |
释义 | Related topics: Industrywax·y /ˈwæksi/ adjective TIlike wax, or made of wax 似蜡的;蜡制的 the waxy blossoms of the water lily 睡莲那如蜡一般的花朵 young men with waxy faces 面如白蜡的青年男子Examples from the Corpuswaxy• By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out, the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy.• Around his leg, where the trouser had been torn, the first creeper curled, thin and waxy against his skin.• a waxy coating on the leaves• It was the tallest tree, and June and July saw its waxy flowers bold as a candelabra.• This manifested itself partly in his waxy parchment-like complexion and a habit of sitting in an increasingly hunched posture.• Into it he crumbled a waxy plug of cocoa, stirred in ground bay leaf, salt, and sugar.• Pecorino Romano is the best variety of this cheese and has a white, waxy rind.• Water patterns bounce off polished chrome, the fibreglass shell is honed to a waxy sheen of pearl.• A thin waxy slip of poison ivy was entwined around one of the legs.wax·y adjectiveChineseSyllable Corpus like wax made of wax, or |
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